51.   Now Reed, an electrical engineer at Yale University, is a leader in the search for a successor to the silicon chip.

52.   Now microscopic mechanical components are staging a comeback at the heart of a new class of silicon chips.

53.   One of the obstacles to integrating a silicon chip with a living nervous system, he said, will be maintaining intimate contact between the chip and the neurons.

54.   Recent breakthoughs have already established dialogue between a silicon chip and the nerve cell of a leech.

55.   Recent breakthroughs have already established dialogue between a silicon chip and the nerve cell of a leech.

56.   Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have fabricated a kind of silicon chip that can be detonated with a remote signal.

57.   Right now silicon chips contain pockets of unused real estate.

58.   RAM is stored on silicon chips inside your Mac.

59.   Rickey said he held five million options to buy stock in Applied Micro Circuits, a San Diego-based company that makes silicon chips.

60.   Scientists are currently building thrusters comprising a silicon chip with an array of holes packed with conventional explosives.